It’s 1929. The studio gave the cinema its voice gave offered the audiences a chance Read More »
Tag Archives: 1920s
Dressed to Kill (1928) Irving Cummings, Edmund Lowe, Mary Astor, Ben Bard
A mob boss’ gang gets suspicious about their boss’ new girlfriend, a beautiful young girl Read More »
The Kid Stakes (1927) Tal Ordell, Robin ‘Pop’ Ordell, Charles Roberts, Ray Salmon
Young “Fatty” Finn and his friends enter their pet goat in a race Read More »
Wild Horse Mesa (1925) George B. Seitz, Jack Holt, Noah Beery, Billie Dove
Desperate for money, a rancher decides to trap and sell wild horses, using barbed wire. Read More »
Foolish Wives (1922) Erich von Stroheim, Rudolph Christians, Miss DuPont, Maude George
A con artist masquerades as Russian nobility Read More »
Don Juan (1926) Alan Crosland, Jane Winton, John Roche, Warner Oland
If there was one thing that Don Juan de Marana learned from his father Don Jose Read More »
A Throw of Dice AKA Prapancha Pash (1929) Franz Osten, Seeta Devi, Himanshu Rai, Charu Roy
With King Ranjit visiting him, King Sohat sees an opportunity to kill his young cousin and take over his kingdom. Read More »
The Patent Leather Kid (1927) Alfred Santell, Richard Barthelmess, Molly O’Day, Lawford Davidson
A boxer has difficulty balancing his sport with a budding romance Read More »
The Dance of the Paroxysms AKA A dança dos paroxismos (1929) Jorge Brum do Canto, Machado Correia, Maria Do Carmo
A surreal short film in which a young man embarks Read More »
Hindle Wakes (1927) Maurice Elvey, Estelle Brody, John Stuart, Norman McKinnel
A celebration of working class leisure activities at Hindle, Lancashire, during “Wakes Week” Read More »
The Covered Wagon (1923) James Cruze, J. Warren Kerrigan, Lois Wilson, Alan Hale
Two wagon caravans converge at what is now Kansas City, and combine for the westward push to Oregon. Read More »
Thundering Hoofs (1924) Albert S. Rogell, Fred Thomson, Silver King the Horse, Ann May
The border bandit Severn is after Estrada’s money. He not only gets Estrada Read More »
Weary River (1929) Frank Lloyd, Richard Barthelmess, Betty Compson, William Holden
Jerry Larabee (Richard Barthelmess)is a gangster who can play piano and sing Read More »
Such Is Life (1924) Alfred J. Goulding, Baby Peggy, Joe Bonner, Tommy Wonder
After a rich woman and her haughty daughter snub poor street waif Peggy Read More »
Peg o’ the Mounted (1924) Alfred J. Goulding, Baby Peggy, Bert Sterling, Jack Earle
A child plays in the woods next to an isolated cabin. An exhausted Mountie faints Read More »